Week 3: Awakening to Beauty, Falling in Love with the World Synopsis: We try to satisfy our thirst for meaningful life with so many distractions and addictions. Awakening to beauty is to find the well that never runs dry. For it is in beginning to truly see the world with our spirits that our soul’s […]

Was Jesus a refugee? Along with his earthly father and mother? All the signs point to that fact, including the witness of the Gospel of Matthew. But yet, this idea is controversial among some churches today. A look at the special creche that is on display by Founder’s MCC in Los Angeles and why it, along […]

“Joy to the World,” a beloved Christmas classic, turns 300 this year. Joy doesn’t wait for struggle to be over. This Sunday we will learn that the Joy of this season is grounded in love. As the song goes, “Love changes everything,” and it was the love of God that created the universe and all […]

Rev. Nancy Wilson Sun. | Aug. 25 | 10AM This Sunday we will conclude our dramatic series, “We Live, We Love” as we explore the story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis. This is a very modern story – one that deals with human trafficking, betrayal, family dysfunction, immigration, and, most of all, the […]

Rejection and the Story of Hagar and Ishmael This Sunday, in our series about relationships and conflict, we consider a Biblical saga that would be perfect for a TV mini-series! An ancient story about Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael that could be an episode of “Big Love,” about a polygamous family, love, surrogacy, rejection and […]

This season we have been exploring our connection and responsibility towards those of our neighbors who are perceived as “Outsiders.” This week we will focused on “Who is my neighbor” the person asked Jesus. Who is our neighbor? The parable of the Good Samaritan reminds us that the outsider is our neighbor, perhaps even more a […]

This season we have been exploring our connection and responsibility towards those of our neighbors who are perceived as “Outsiders.” This week we focus on the traveler who is always an outsider — visiting new places and adjusting to customs and cultures outside their own experience. Sometimes wanderers are also refugees. Jesus warns the disciples […]

This season we are exploring our connection and responsibility towards those of our neighbors who are “Outsiders” – something many of us know about personally. This week we focus on a scripture story that describes a man whose demons forced him to live on the outside of community. The story is not only an ancient […]

This season we are exploring our connection and responsibility towards those of our neighbors who are “Outsiders” – something many of us know about personally. This Sunday we heard in the Gospel reading that Jesus himself was homeless as he ministered to the crowds. In fact, he called people to leave the comforts of home […]

Sunday May 19th, we continued exploring stories of the earliest church from the Book of Acts. We encounterd the apostle Peter and the Gentile centurion, Cornelius as they “took the Cup of Freedom!” Our scripture this week was another example of the “unhindered gospel,” as Peter comes to know the extravagant love of God that […]